Use OpenVPN in TCP mode (rather than it's default UDP mode).

Then set up local ssh port forwards through a bounce host you know works well.

Instead of going from Peru --> UK instead go from Peru --> Localhost --> SSH bounce host in Germany --> UK.

Or try an onion network like Tor.

Guess it's time to give back to the community....a few years ago, I wrote a custom script to continually tail out lines at a time from /var/log/auth.log and null route the bad ip's....to date, I have 4316 ip's null routed.  I have the following script running as a background job initiated from /etc/rc.local     hope this is helpful to people.

----begin----
#!/bin/bash
# script to sense bad ssh or ftp login tries from the same ip address
while [ 1 ];
do
# block known linux service user accounts ssh attempts
previous=0;
i=0;
for badip in `awk '/sshd/ && /Failed password for /' /var/log/auth.log | egrep -i "root|bin|daemon|adm|lp|sync|shutdown|halt|mail|news|uucp|operator|games|rpm|vcsa|rpc|xfs|apache|rpcuser|sshd|ftp|kamphor|named|messagebus|haldaemon|ntp|openvpn|x11|polkituser|avahi|avahi-autoipd|htdig|pulse" | awk '{print $11}'|  tail -100 | sort | uniq`;
do
                if ! `grep -q $badip /etc/hosts.deny`; then
                        echo "ALL: $badip" >> /etc/hosts.deny;
                        echo "route add -host $badip gw 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/routeblock.sh
                        route add -host $badip gw 127.0.0.1;
                fi
done

# null route any attempt at non-existant users for ssh attempts
previous=0;
i=0;
for badip in `awk '/sshd/ && /invalid user/ {print $13}' /var/log/auth.log | tail -100 | sort | uniq`;
do
                if ! `grep -q $badip /etc/hosts.deny`; then
                        echo "ALL: $badip" >> /etc/hosts.deny;
                        echo "route add -host $badip gw 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/routeblock.sh
                        route add -host $badip gw 127.0.0.1;
                fi
done
# scan for behavior - probe ssh then try password
previous=0;
i=0;
        # first loop- check for ssh probe
for badip in `awk '/sshd/ && /not receive identification string/ {print $12}' /var/log/auth.log | tail -2`;
do
        if [ $previous == $badip ]; then
                i=`expr $i + 1`;
        #       echo "in spoofed checker $badip $i"
        else
                i=0;
        fi
        #echo "these are the bad ip addresses: $badip $previous $i";
        previous=$badip;
done
        # end first for loop
        #start second loop - check for failed logins
for badip2 in `grep $badip /var/log/auth.log | awk '/sshd/ && /Failed/ {print $11}' | tail -2`;
do
        if [ $previous == $badip2 ]; then
                i=`expr $i + 1`;
        #       echo "in spoofed checker $badip2 $i"
        else
                i=0;
        fi
        if [ $i -ge 3 ]; then
                if ! `grep -q $badip2 /etc/hosts.deny`; then
        #               echo "not found in hosts.deny file";
                        echo "ALL: $badip2" >> /etc/hosts.deny;
                        echo "route add -host $badip2 gw 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/routeblock.sh
                        route add -host $badip2 gw 127.0.0.1;
                fi
        fi
        #echo "these are the bad ip addresses: $badip2 $previous $i";
        previous=$badip2;
done
        #end second loop

# scan for spoofed domains or hosts for ssh attempts
previous=0;
i=0;
for badip in `awk '/sshd/ && /Address/ && /does not map back/ {print $7}' /var/log/auth.log | tail -3`;
do
        if [ $previous == $badip ]; then
                i=`expr $i + 1`;
#               echo "in spoofed checker $badip $i"
        else
                i=0;
        fi
        if [ $i -ge 2 ]; then
                if ! `grep -q $badip /etc/hosts.deny`; then
                        echo "ALL: $badip" >> /etc/hosts.deny;
                        echo "route add -host $badip gw 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/routeblock.sh
                        route add -host $badip gw 127.0.0.1;
                fi
        fi
#       echo "these are the bad ip addresses: $badip $previous $i";
        previous=$badip;
done

# scan for failed ftp attempts
previous=0;
i=0;
for badip in `awk '/proftpd/ && /Maximum/ {print $7}' /var/log/auth.log | awk -F\( '{print $2}' | awk -F\[ '{print $2}' | awk -F\] '{print $1}' | tail -2`;
do
        if [ $previous == $badip ]; then
                i=`expr $i + 1`;
#               echo "in ftp section $badip $i"
        else
                i=0;
        fi
        if [ $i -ge 1 ]; then
                if ! `grep -q $badip /etc/hosts.deny`; then
                        echo "ALL: $badip" >> /etc/hosts.deny;
                        echo "route add -host $badip gw 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/routeblock.sh
                        route add -host $badip gw 127.0.0.1;

                fi
        fi
#       echo "these are the bad ip addresses: $badip $previous $i";
        previous=$badip;
done

# block all admin logins to ftp
previous=0;
i=0;
for badip in `awk '/proftpd/ && /no such user found/' /var/log/auth.log | egrep -i "Administrator" | awk '{print $17}' | cut -f2 -d[ | cut -f1 -d] | sort | uniq`;
do
                if ! `grep -q $badip /etc/hosts.deny`; then
                        echo "ALL: $badip" >> /etc/hosts.deny;
                        echo "route add -host $badip gw 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/routeblock.sh
                        route add -host $badip gw 127.0.0.1;

                fi
done

sleep 1;
done
----end----

hedronist is 100% right.

My house was built in 1953 and is made of brick with plaster walls. Some of the walks have chipped or cracked over the years and underneath the plaster surface is a metallic mesh.

When I'm outside my home my signal is a perfect 4 bars. The minute I step inside I drop to "No Service".

WiFi has problems too and it's transmitting within the house about 2 rooms away.

I wish there was a WiFi solution outside of microwave...

I nearly lost my whole filesystem. It's a good thing I had a backup core system on reiserfs to boot from and run fsck. from what I understand, it's a problem with the ext4 journaling system and metadata. this link has info on the journal problem...which may have already been patched in the current kernels. http://lwn.net/Articles/284037/ wiki page for ext4 - bottom has a fix for the problem: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext4 essentially, mounting and ext4 filesystem with option "data=ordered" helped my system out. since I have enabled this mount option, my filesystem is now stable even after hard reboots or power failures. Hope this helps out people as it did me! -Kamphor

From a press release several weeks/months ago:

"DIRECTV and TiVo will work together to develop a version of the TiVo® service for DIRECTV's broadband-enabled HD DVR platform. The product will support the latest TiVo and DIRECTV features and services, including TiVo's Universal Swivel Search and TiVo KidZone. TiVo will develop the new HD DVR for an expected launch in the second half of 2009."

So right now we're locked out but the landscape will improve in the future.

This actually happened to me like 2 years ago. First time was a letter in the mail from Comcast stating that I should check my [wireless] network security, if I use wireless, and enable WEP/WPA so that other people cannot leech off my broadband connection. The second time, they put my cable modem on "abusive mode" which gave it an internal ip address for the comcast network. I think at this point, I was only able to go to the main comcast web page. I had to call them up and release the restriction, but they told me that if I exceed the aggregate bandwidth transfer cap/limit/number, then I would have to find another isp. Now, Comcast offers tiered service: standard 4/384, 6/384, and 8/768. I would assume that purchasing the higher tiers would in essence increase the aggregate transfer limit cap by that fraction. There was a massive download I wanted totaling 80gig by itself, and before I downloaded it, purchased the highest tier. The 3rd tier is essentially double that of the standard service, so if 90gigs a month was the magic number, then my new cap should be 180gigs a month. Ever since then, I haven't had a problem with my transfers (knock on wood!).